Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF)
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- Areas of investment
Summary
The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.
The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund (PALF), startups are often financed by Ted Dintersmith, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, CyberAgent Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Ted Dintersmith, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, VilCap Investments. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, VilCap Investments, Ted Dintersmith.
This organization was formed by Katelyn Donnelly.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Avanti Learning Centres, SPARK Schools. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are E-Commerce, Apps. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - India.
The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.
Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 10
- Lead investments
- 2
- Rounds per year
- 1.00
- Follow on index
- 0.40
- Investments by industry
- Education (10)
- E-Learning (7)
- Online Portals (3)
- Information Technology (3)
- Internet (1) Show 5 more
- Investments by region
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- South Africa (1)
- India (8)
- Indonesia (1)
- Peak activity year
- 2013
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 8
- Group Appearance index
- 0.70
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experifun | 27 Nov 2013 | E-Learning, Online Portals, Education | Seed | 75K | Karnataka, Bengaluru, India |
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